Creativity & madness revisited from current psychological perspectives

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 58-78

  Barrantes Vidal, Neus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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